Anant Agarwal

Anant Agarwal M. (* 1959) is an Indian- American computer scientist.

Agarwal went to school in Mangalore. He studied at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (Bachelor 's degree in Electrical Engineering, 1982) and in 1984 he received his master's degree at Stanford University, where he received his doctorate in 1987. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). 1998 to 2003 he was associate director of the Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS ) at MIT; 2011 to 2012 he was director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ( CSAIL ). He leads the Carbon Research Group at CSAIL for development of hardware and operating systems for multi-core processor systems and cloud computing. In the same line of research, he has been active as director of the Research Network Project Angstrom between universities and industry.

In the early 1990s he was an architect of the Alewife Multiprocessor project ( a scalable shared-memory multiprocessor system ) and developed the associated SPARCle processor ( 1992). He used the technology later in establishing its own development company Tilera (founded in 2004), which created the Tile multicore processor.

He conducted at MIT in 2002, the Raw project ( multi-core processors with instruction level parallelism (ILP ) ) and the Virtual Wires project.

2001 Agarwal received the Maurice Wilkes Award for computer architecture. In 2007 he became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. In 1991 he received the Presidential Young Investigator Award. He is president of EDX, the free initiative for online learning of Harvard and MIT. In 2013 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.